On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Brian Foster <brian.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > In a script, how can I determine commit Y is reachable > > from the current HEAD ? > > test $(git merge-base HEAD Y) = $(git rev-parse Y) Almost. It works as long as there is only one merge base. You really need to check if $(git rev-parse Y) is one of $(git merge-base --all HEAD Y) if HEAD is a named branch, you can do git name-rev --refs=refs/heads/branchname Y which will give you Y relative to branchname if it is contained within it. David -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html